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Police: Man Who Got No Presents Burns Down Parents' Home
POSTED: 1:31 pm EST December 29, 2004
FEASTERVILLE, Pa. -- Police say a Pennsylvania man was angry he didn't get any presents for Christmas -- so he burned down his parents' house the next morning.
Steven Murray is charged with arson and risking a catastrophe in the blaze that broke out early Sunday. No one was injured.
Police said Murray had himself committed to a hospital on Christmas Day, but later signed himself out and walked eight miles home.
He told police he saw the flames in the distance. But officers say his jacket smelled of smoke and they found a lighter in his pocket and a gas can near the front door.
One officer says Murray "was irritated that his family gave him no presents for Christmas."
He was jailed on $1 million bail.
Police: Man Who Got No Presents Burns Down Parents' Home
POSTED: 1:31 pm EST December 29, 2004
FEASTERVILLE, Pa. -- Police say a Pennsylvania man was angry he didn't get any presents for Christmas -- so he burned down his parents' house the next morning.
Steven Murray is charged with arson and risking a catastrophe in the blaze that broke out early Sunday. No one was injured.
Police said Murray had himself committed to a hospital on Christmas Day, but later signed himself out and walked eight miles home.
He told police he saw the flames in the distance. But officers say his jacket smelled of smoke and they found a lighter in his pocket and a gas can near the front door.
One officer says Murray "was irritated that his family gave him no presents for Christmas."
He was jailed on $1 million bail.
